Overview
bridge — KILLAGHOOR is recorded as bridge in Mayo. Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1866 Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered piers with replacement mild steel railings on concrete block parapets.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1866
People and work
The saved account records: Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered piers with replacement mild steel railings on concrete block parapets.
How it changed
The saved account records: Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs.
What survives
The saved account records: Sited spanning road on a corner site with unkempt embankments to road.
Why it mattered
bridge — KILLAGHOOR matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the outskirts of Westport on account of the connections with the development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1866) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement in the streetscape: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Indicated — Killaghoormonument0.1 miles
- Indicated — Buckwariamonument0.3 miles
- Standing stone in Killaghoormonument0.3 miles
- Westport Railway Stationbuilding0.3 miles
- water pump — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- The Railway Tavern — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- worker's house — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- bridge — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- house — Westportbuilding0.5 miles
- house — Altamount Streetbuilding0.5 miles
- Children's playground — County Mayoattraction0.5 miles
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